Eat in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

Olmo

• ★ 4.3
• Mexican
• $$

Order The grilled branzino over stewed beans, and the 12-ounce carne asada with chipotle bearnaise.

Olmo is a Mexican restaurant on Saratoga Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with a Bib Gourmand, serving Mexico City-inspired dishes at communal tables.

Dept of Culture

• ★ 4.3
• West African
• $$$

Dept of Culture is a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn dinner room where chef Ayo Balogun serves an $85 four-course tasting menu inspired by north-central Nigerian cooking.

Hart's

• ★ 4.4
• Mediterranean
• $$$

Order Pork milanese with cucumber and shaved fennel, or whatever the daily menu lists with poached hake or mussels.

Hart's is a small neighborhood restaurant under the Franklin Avenue subway stairs in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with a dinner menu that changes daily.

Daphne's

• ★ 4.2
• Italian
• $$$

Order Focaccia with anchovy butter, then the radiatore with mustard green pesto or the grilled pork chop.

Daphne's is an Italian-American corner restaurant on Halsey Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with a short menu of house-made pasta, focaccia and grilled mains.

For All Things Good

• ★ 4.2
• Mexican
• $$

Order Memelas with avocado and a fried egg, or tetelas and tlayudas.

For All Things Good is a masa-focused Oaxacan-style restaurant on Franklin Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, that makes its own heirloom corn tortillas.

Peaches

• ★ 3.9
• Soul food
• $$

Order Blackened catfish or turkey meatloaf, both Southern comfort dishes from the brunch menu.

Peaches is a Southern restaurant on Lewis Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, with big portions, a popular brunch and dishes such as blackened catfish.

Brown Butter

• ★ 4.2
• Cafe
• $

Order Haitian coffee

Brown Butter is a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, craft cafe on Tompkins Avenue serving Haitian coffee beans, chicken and waffles, biscuits and strawberry shortcake.

Che

• ★ 4.4
• Cafe
• $

Order Sey and Uncommon espresso

Che is a small Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, coffee shop on Malcolm X Boulevard that pours Sey and Uncommon beans by day and natural wine and cocktails at night.

Welcome Home

• ★ 4.3
• Bakery
• $

Order Mortadella on sesame focaccia

Welcome Home on Bedford Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, bakes laminated pastries, loaves, baguettes, cakes and sandwiches, and is closed on Tuesdays.

Nostrand Cafe

• ★ 4.0
• Coffee roaster
• $

Nostrand Cafe roasts small batches on a manual cast-iron drum roaster at 261 Nostrand Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and serves breakfast and Korean dishes.

Bar Lunàtico

• ★ 4.4
• Cocktail bar
• $$

Drink Cocktails from a bar stocked with niche spirits

Bar Lunàtico is an artist-owned bar and restaurant in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with live music from 21:00 nightly, a dinner menu and a $10 suggested donation.

Lucky's Cocktail Lounge

• ★ 4.3
• Cocktail bar
• $$

Drink Fruit-and-flower cocktails

Lucky's Cocktail Lounge is a Black-woman-owned Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn bar with big angel wings in the room, fruit-and-flower cocktails and catfish strips.

Dick & Jane's BarRoom

• ★ 4.1
• Cocktail bar
• $$

Drink Cocktails at a bar the length of the room

Dick & Jane's BarRoom is a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn bar and restaurant on Malcolm X Boulevard with a pressed tin ceiling, a room-length bar and a full dinner menu.

Tastes of Bed-Stuy

• ★ 3.8

Tastes of Bed-Stuy is a charity food and drink crawl in Brooklyn: a ticket buys a menu and map of participating Bed-Stuy restaurants and bars, starting from Peaches on Lewis Avenue.

Ma-n-Pop

• ★ 4.2
• Soul food
• $$

Try Whiting fish and grits, catfish dinner

Ma-n-Pop is a Bed-Stuy soul food restaurant on Lewis Avenue in Brooklyn serving whiting fish and grits, a catfish dinner and chicken and waffle.

Ursula

• ★ 4.4
• Mexican
• $$

Order A smothered breakfast burrito, or the blue corn pancakes.

Ursula on Nostrand Avenue, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, cooks New Mexican breakfast and brunch, with smothered burritos and blue corn pancakes, Wednesday to Sunday.

Dolores

• ★ 4.1
• Mexican
• $$

Order The churro French toast, or the molletes with pico de gallo and black beans.

Dolores on Tompkins Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, runs a Mexican brunch Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 15:00, with molletes and churro French toast.